Includes a report to the Minister for the period 1 January-31 December 2017, an obituary for Franics J Byrne and the following papers: Aqua lunaris and Oleum solis: a copy of a manuscript by Richard Stanihurst, (Conleth Loonan); Interrogating Richard Boyle: The Savoy House Proceedings of 1599 (David Edwards); The appeal of Thomas Franke to the Court of Claims, 1666, (John Johnston); France and Ireland in the late Eighteenth century: The correspondence of Charles Coquebert de Montbret and Andrew Caldwell (Jane Conroy and Barbara Wright)